JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2019

... is the illustration which serves to persuasively sustain the interest of the readers in a literary piece

A short poem that expresses an idea in a clever way is called _____

"The sudden throb of pain" in Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Old' signifies the_________

Amma Darko's Faceless may be best described as a___________

When a writer deviates from the chronological arrangement of events in a literary piece, he uses ...

What basically distinguishes literature from other disciplines is its________

'Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy'

The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

________is used to describe the 'god of inspiration' in literature

Awonoor's 'The Anvil and the Hammer' is best described as a/an___________

The art of using persuasive words in literary works is known as_______

Read the poem and answer questions

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

There is a predominance of words associated with________

A transferred epithet is popularly known as a/an ........

'The dun dun of a drum' is an example of an__________

The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________

In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

The bar in Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" is a symbol for the___________